Larry Mitchell:Political Rain
2009-12-01 01:19:00 Larry Mitchell - Political Rain Larry Mitchell Thank you This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
A/C: A History of Depicting Thanksgiving, Political Art, Open Books Opens
2009-11-26 16:00:00 Photograph by spencewine Celebrate Thanksgiving with Art Talk Chicago's a historical view of the holiday's depictions.And, the Poetry Foundation has a collection of Thanksgiving poems for you.What do you think about political art? I know what Jeriah Hildwine thinks.Veronica Bond runs down reviews the opening of the new Open Books used bookstore. In television news, it seems that our local Fox station isn't particularly good at math...Hyde Park's newest arts space, The Op Shop, will open tomorrow with its first show in a formerly vacant storefront, but just because they're open doesn't mean they're done accepting submissions.The GB Book Club also reviews The Monster Variations by Daniel Kraus. If you head down to Hyde Park, maybe you also want to check out "gothic melodrama" at the Court Theater.Brian Dickie...
Cap 'n Trade: The Political Calculus
2009-11-12 19:19:00 Let's start from an assumption: The massive amounts of greenhouse gasses human beings are pumping into the atmosphere are causing irreparable harm to the planet and pushing us toward a slow-rolling environmental catastrophe.I understand that for a slowly depleting minority, this assumption is no good, but for now, we'll treat these people like a brick wall and not pound our heads to jelly contemplating them. In a previous post, I summarized why the current cap and trade legislation passed in the House and knocking around the Senate would not only not destroy the economy but be a forward-thinking, beneficial move in the long run toward building a more solid economic foundation. Now, starting from the assumption I just made,...
What do Choppers, Jihadists & Anti-Depressants Have in Common?
2009-10-30 02:09:00 So here I was on a lazy Saturday morning barely awake switching on my brand new Bravia for the latest international news as I was smelling the freshly brewed Colombian coffee. It seemed very pleasant outside and I was looking forward to the nice warm weather and a walk by the beach. I was thinking about the fun I'd have for the rest of the day far away from my cubicle when all of a sudden my tranquillity was interrupted by something that sounded like a big explosion. For a microsecond I felt like I was in the middle of Kabul. I looked at the TV in case BBC was showing the latest Taliban attack, but to my avail, it was showing the latest results from the Ashes. Then another loud bang almost made me dropped my precious coffee on my Polo robe. ?What The Flying FAK', I thought? I was neither living in Kabul nor in Baghdad and BBC was just showing freaking cricket! read more
By: What the FAK
Streets and Sanitation absenteeism is an old (and political) story
2009-10-29 18:56:00 Tom Byrne, commissioner of Chicago's Department of Streets and Sanitation, put his foot down this week on chronic absenteeism within his department. I guess that means things are gonna get real dicey when it comes time to vote (and work the polls) during some pivotal elections in 2010 and 2011....
HuffPo Compiles 2009's Funniest Political Protest Signs
2009-10-19 14:30:00 Photo from Democratic Underground via Huffington PostI love a good protest, but what I love even more is a good protest sign. This is why I was delighted to see that Huffington Post had compiled a gallery of the funniest political protest signs from 2009. Mostly they hail from the health care reform protests, the conservative tea party protests, the Glenn Beck-inspired 9/12 gatherings and the Proposition 8 gay marriage protests and counter-protests in California. Some of the signs fall into the, "Oh my God, you can't be that dumb," category, such as one gem that read "Don't Steal from Medicare to Support Socialized Medicine." Others, however, are just downright clever....
Star Status Holds Political Promise
2009-09-22 09:04:00 LYON, France -- The photographer insisted on telling her how to pose. A television soundman thrust his microphone toward her face while behind him the intruding camera rolled.
By: Get rich
Is Obama a Political Genius?(Or Was he Just in the Right Place, at the Righ
2009-09-22 03:00:00 During the fall campaign and into the first months of Barack Obama’s Administration we heard much about this Democrat’s “political genius.” And while I credit him with a powerful presence and a way with words (especially when speaking those appearing on a teleprompter), after watching his first eight months in office, I don’t see much ...
By: GayPatriot
Political writer Irving Kristol dead at 89
(AP)
2009-09-19 06:05:00 AP - Irving Kristol, the writer, editor and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the counterculture, died Friday. He was 89.
You Terrify Me - A Rebuttal to "You Scare Me"
2009-09-17 23:30:00 The completely juvenile and unintelligent open letter written by Lou Pritchett to President Barack Obama speaks for itself. However, if you were looking for a few good arguments to sock those republicans at the office around with, I thought I would offer a rebuttal to Mr. Lou?s faking joke of a letter. read more
By: What the FAK
This Is Not A Political Post
2009-09-14 21:38:00 With the hallabaloo last week of Obama speaking to school children and then the Health Care debates and townhall’s and speeches, it was hard not to get a little caught up in the happenings. The reality is I’ve checked out a bit on the national political ruckus, there just seemed to be too much yelling for me to keep my head on straight. It struck me that next week will mark 8 months in to the Democrat ruled White House, which seems like a relatively short amount of time to form such a strong opinion of folks. It took me a good 3 1/2 years to go from a Bush supporter to a governmental dissenter. I don’t think political maneuvering and government are the way to get things done, though I do think are collective organizing and resources (i.e. government) for all it’s flaws can definitely be a tool to address community needs. I do find it useful when the fire department shows up to put our a fire, and when I check out books from my local library, and when we bik...
By: Trying to Follow
Super Rich Buy Political Offices?
2009-09-11 16:32:00 Michael Bloomberg and Silvio Brelusconi share in common the fact that they have bought control of their respective city/country with their extreme wealth. Each in effect controls the media and the pols surrounding them. One cannot watch TV today without encountering yet another Bloomberg ad. Berlusconi owns and operates the Italian media as well as ...
D-List Quote o' the Day: the Political Edition
2009-09-10 15:30:00 Guess who dared to utter this little gem of a line:"Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father." Hint: It's not from an "SNL" sketch....
Right America is Good for the World
2009-09-09 01:13:00 I know what you are thinking: Pericles is on drugs. Well, not quite. I am not on drugs. Actually, I've never done drugs but I think that cannabis should be legalized. Anyway, I think that the Republicans are actually good and the rest of the world should do its best to support people like Palin. They are good because only when they come to power, their faking stupidity and ignorance will bring the US down and the rest of the world can live happily ever after. read more
By: What the FAK
Has politics outgrown political art?
2009-08-24 22:35:00 We should be doing something in Darfur, right? I mean, Mia Farrow's fast didn't seem to work. How about an exhibit of paintings about the conflict to help raise awareness? Oh, wait, everybody knows already? If everybody knows why aren't we doing anything? I mean, this has been going on for over six years and over a half a million people have died. I'm an artist, I have the power to help, right?...
China's Big Political Picture Writ Small For Business.
2009-08-23 19:18:00 I am not generally a fan of extrapolating the way a country conducts its politics to the way its enterprises conduct its businesses even in China where so many businesses are government owned. I am not saying it cannot be done, but I generally find it too complicated for too little value. David Dayton, a guy who truly knows the way China conducts its manufacturing, just came out with an analogy laden post, entitled, "Rio Tinto and Urumqi as Corporate Culture Lessons,"linking China's recent handling of its Western region with how its factories treat foreigners. Though I am dubious of the value (beyond entertainment) of making this linkage, I am convinced Dayton is spot on regarding Chinese factories and I am going to focus on that. Dayton sees China using the following four step process to deal with its problems out West: 1. Round them up. 2. Insist everything is okay. 3. Identify a common enemy. 4. Show them the money. 1. Round them up. Anyone against the factory will be...
By: China Law Blog
Threats and Political Protest
2009-08-20 00:06:00 From the associated press Threats, jeers saturate angry health care debate. Clearly the AP feels that the level of rhetoric (and attending protests armed) is “hate” and goes on to raise concerns about armed protests inciting violence. The AP certainly isn’t on the side of gun rights but they do shape peoples opinions.
By: Brillianter.com
Political columnist Robert Novak dies at 78
(AP)
2009-08-18 18:13:00 AP - The Chicago Sun-Times says columnist Robert Novak, who was a central figure in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case, has died.
Open carry at political protests
2009-08-18 01:06:00 Open Carry at a protest where Obama is going to be. I am not sure how I feel about this one. It’s good that the police aren’t overreacting, but this has a lot of potential for going sideways in a hurry. A crackpot or a plant could create a lot of bad (worse) press.
By: Brillianter.com
The Evolution of Laissez Faire: Free Market Economics in Political Theory a
2009-08-16 02:47:00 Leonard O Goenaga The Evolution of Laissez Faire: Free Market Economics in Political Theory and American Thought I. Intro Opening Statement: Defining Laissez Faire Thesis Statement II. Outline III. Body Laissez Faire in the 18th Century Thought 1: The Founding: Thomas Jefferson (18th Century) Thomas Jefferson ú Declaration of Independence ú First Inaugural Address (1801) Laissez Faire in the 19th Century Thought 2: Free Labor: Abraham Lincoln (19th ...
Obama Pharma Deal - A Surprising Political Alliance
2009-08-11 23:35:00 A promise by the pharmaceutical industry to save the nation $80 billion over a decade in exchange for protection from further givebacks under health care reform pending in Congress was confirmed recently by the White House. Apparently, the pharmaceutical companies got spooked by action in the House that would give the feds negotiating authority for drug prices and bigger rebates from the industry. So the industry got an explicit affirmation of protection from deeper cuts. The trade group PhRMA explained the quid pro quo -- drugmakers stepped up first with a cost-saving pledge, and, in return, got "a rock-solid deal" not to make further cuts in prescription drug prices beyond the $80 billion. The White House confirmed the deal. Neither party mentioned what is apparently a side deal - drug companies will bankroll a TV ad campaign in support of health care reform. The ads would bolster the administration's plans to remake health care and expand insurance coverage to nearly 50 milli...
Tips on Participating in a Political Kiss-In
2009-08-10 15:12:00 This Saturday from 1-2pm at the "Bean" also known as Cloudgate (probably the gayest sculpture in Chicago) gay rights activists and their friends will be holding a kiss in to celebrate LGBT love in all it's lovely shapes and forms and to draw attention to the sad reality that for same sex couples kissing in public spaces can be a dangerous thing. A hot gay couple kisses during Market Days, 2008. Photo by Fausto Fernós, www.feastoffun.com The Great Nationwide Kiss-In was started by two bloggers - David Badash and David Mailloux - who believe that any person anywhere should be able to kiss whomever they want, whenever they want. We agree! The best thing about going to a kiss-in by...
Why Wouldn?t You Want The Government In Between You and Your Doctor?
2009-08-05 18:42:00 Most people I meet ask me why the fak I decided to move to the tiny little land of Denmark. This article will explain my reasons? but my basic thesis is why the fak wouldn?t I? Disclaimer: After reading this you might be booking the first flight over here so don?t jump on Expedia or Travelocity or whatever travel site best suits your fancy all at once. read more
By: What the FAK
On gay issues, academic freedom takes backseat to political correctness
2009-07-29 10:00:00 Perhaps because I had planned a short post on equality–and how gay leaders, in making that notion the watchword of our their movement have lost sight of the American ideal of freedom, that a post that Glenn linked caught my attention as I was preparing for bed. It’s a story we’ve heard before; it’s just the ...
By: GayPatriot
Could the Real America Please Stand Up?
2009-07-22 03:58:00 I know what you are thinking. You are thinking that the title refers to a new song by EMINEM and for some reason, I decided to comment on it. Granted, he has a new album out but this is not what I am referring to. Perhaps I have been influenced by his new album which I like because it is completely politically incorrect. As usual, I bet, that everybody is going to attack EMINEM for his homophobic and misogynist lyrics. You know what, I actually like his album not because I dislike homosexuals or women. On the contrary, I actually think that homosexuals are great and bright people. As for women, I do like them a lot even if they are a pain in the bum, at times. read more
By: What the FAK
Constance Hays wrote a new blog post: Summer Malaise-Political cheaters and
2009-07-09 12:19:00 Constance Hays wrote a new blog post: Summer Malaise-Political cheaters and liars Is it just me or is anyone else out there feeling depressed and tired of the smut atmosphere in politics? Where are the Paul Wellstones of our nation? I crave an idealist right now. Just one. One who might shore up the molding, ammonia smelling group of political narcissists oozing and splaying their bacteria across the print and ...
The Advocate Names GayPatriot As A Top Political Blog
2009-07-08 23:11:00 This came out last week, but I just haven’t able to get to it. So finally, here it is. And it is quite a nice write-up, to my surprise. GayPatriot: Admittedly, many liberal gays probably would prefer to ...
By: GayPatriot
Political violence: useful, legal, and justified
2009-07-06 09:27:00 Various organizations defend the human rights of the Palestinians. Curiously, political philosophers don?t know whether natural rights exist at all, let alone their range. The Declaration of Human Rights reflects an ultra-left understanding of them. European states employ many workarounds to circumvent the Declaration. Electoral barriers and districted elections violating proportional representation are just some ...
By: Samson Blinded
Palin?s Resignation Provides Further Insight into ?Political Faith? of her
2009-07-06 09:00:00 It seems serendipitously synchronous that I’ve been reading Jamie Glazov’s United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror during a week in which Sarah Palin has been back in the headlines. In the first half of his book, Glazov details the political pilgrimages various intellectuals, artists and assorted left-wingers have made over the years to tyrannies ...
By: GayPatriot
Prominent Indians Berate India?s Rife Political Corruption
2009-07-06 00:56:00 Many are the intellectually extremely dishonest ploys used by those who fanatically oppose the exposure of Sathya Sai Baba and core leaders of his sect. One of these ruses intended to blacken those who have stood for truth for a great many years of their lives is that former devotees who speak out are "India bashers". To point out how he and his key servitors have only deepened the corruption that is rife in India greatly displeases them. They do not stop to consider that there are forces - many of them tremendously courageous - who criticise India from within. The fact that Sathya Sai Baba's apologists will not face is that Sai Baba has many times said that he and his Sathya Sai Organization are going to save the world, mostly within his own lifetime. He has failed.
Palin takes to Web for hints of political future
2009-07-05 20:16:00 Palin takes to Web for hints of political future JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn’t wait long to give some hint of what her political life might look like after she leaves office at the end of the month. After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a day after ...
By: TexasFred's
On gender difference & political correctness
2009-07-01 21:18:00 I’m ambivalent about gay marriage in part because, in studying the history of the institution, we learn it is defined by gender difference. Up until the 1990s, those cultures which have recognized same-sex unions either called them something different than marriage or, if they did call them marriage, required one partner to live in the ...
By: GayPatriot
GUEST COLUMN: Libertarian-Left D.J. And Political Pundit susan 28 Weighs In
2009-06-28 03:40:00 susan 28: Offers A Gun-Toting Liberal Libertarian-ish View On Socialized Medicine… In response to Obama tank-man Marc Seltzer’s defense of the “Fig leaf Option”, susan 28 says: “I don’t care what your position on healthcare is; that capsule looks *cool*.. But... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
A Burkean View of Obama?s Ice Cream Excursion:Or, how Political Theater Onl
2009-06-22 23:45:00 If I were to advise those Republicans formulating the opposition to the President’s policies, I would tell them to study his campaign from the end of the Democratic convention until the beginining of the financial meltdown. Then, the otherwise much (and rightfully so) vaunted Obama organization was an inept operation. Hugh Hewitt quipped that “We ...
By: GayPatriot
Activism, Political Activist Groups and the MSM
2009-06-21 18:12:00 Activism, Political Activist Groups and the MSM On Saturday afternoon the members of The Rowlett Texas TEA Party sponsored a training session for it’s members. A training session on how to be an effective activist. Sometimes a grassroots campaign needs a little water. That was the idea behind a gathering Saturday in Garland, where organizers of the ...
By: TexasFred's
Jon Voight Obama ?False Prophet? [VIDEO]
2009-06-09 20:21:00 Actor Jon Voight calls President Obama a “false prophet” at the Republican Senate-House Fundraising Dinner on June 8th. Discuss! Related Smacks Ashley Todd: Victim of Politics or Media...
By: Celebrity Smack!
Obama in political box over closing Guantanamo
2009-05-21 16:48:00 Obama in political box over closing Guantanamo WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama finds himself in a political box - at home and abroad - on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, and will be trying Thursday to use a major address on national security to work out of the tight spot. Obama takes on the explosive topic ...
By: TexasFred's
On DADT repeal and the limits of political labels
2009-05-17 22:39:00 Every once in a while, I read a comment from a civil critic which helps me put my own worldview into perspective. Responding to Average Gay Joe’s post linking a Podcast Interview of Lt. Daniel Choi, reader CR did just that: I have to honestly confess my surprise at how supportive the GP bloggers have been ...
By: GayPatriot
The Singh is king again because he works hard!
2009-05-17 18:03:00 The recently concluded elections in India has a very important thing to prove, hard work pays! The last Congress government had done a marvelous job in not just appeasing the urban population but the rural population as well. The impact of global recession has so far been virtually absent from India. Even though impact was ...
By: Serendipity
Obama Lacks the Gipper?s Political Courage on Gays
2009-05-14 09:18:00 You can measure a politician’s principles by his willingness to do something which he believes to be the right thing, but which carries a political cost. Before he was ever elected President, Ronald Reagan did just such a thing, showing political courage in standing up against anti-gay bigotry. In 1978, he came out publicly against the ...
By: GayPatriot
No Political Gain for Democrats in DADT Repeal
2009-05-09 01:44:00 While lumbering through traffic in West Hollywood and Westwood earlier today, I pondered my (then-)most recent post, wondering if Democrats would suffer any political fallout from their failure to push repeal of the Clinton-era Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell (DADT) policy banning gays from serving openly in the military. And I realized that they wouldn’t. They have nothing ...
By: GayPatriot
Political Cost to Delaying Repeal of DADT?
2009-05-08 20:14:00 While it’s clear that there’s a national security cost to the Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell (DADT) ban on gays serving opening it the military, I’m not sure I agree with the folks at the Palm Center (which has done a lot of good work exposing the folly of this policy) that there is also a political ...
By: GayPatriot
Political party looking for musical trips
2009-04-24 19:42:00 Our political party has conduct good road trip will be commencing on next week for canvassing our party symbol as well as nominated person who are standing the election. We are planning to invite some ministers and with excellent arrangements for the road to make with memorable day. We need good road trip musicians which are playing and rocking with favorite songs. We are completed all the works for long road trips and looking for musicians only. We want to make with specific album related for our party functions and person can able to practice the lyrics before the trip and to provide excellent songs. Interested musicians send your details with us.
McCain's Political Posturing On The Militia Mess
2009-04-22 00:17:00 (And I also posted here.)I would say that this story has a lot to do with this one; I mean, how late is it anyway in the news cycle for the senator from Arizona and Repug presidential candidate last year to be alleging that the report on militia activity from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was ?insulting? to veterans? Particularly when Napolitano has already apologized (unnecessarily, I think) as noted here (from the WaPo)?And what of Chris Simcox, McCain?s just-declared primary challenger? Well, in addition to a history that includes a failed marriage, unemployment, 9/11 trauma and a three-month stint in the desert (reported by Max Blumenthal here), we also learn the following from Blumenthal?s Salon.com article?There are those in Tombstone who say that the 41-year-old former teacher is an eccentric, an egomaniac and a threat to the local tourism industry. While Simcox says his militia has 600 members, others here say the number is far smaller. "Chris can only get a t...
Political Lies, Political Prisoners, the American Gulag
2009-04-21 18:45:00 Remember when that lying monkey told the nation and the world, “We do not torture?” This is a declassified top secret pdf file that authorizes just that — Torture Memo. While this is really another issue, the lies that we are constantly told and expected to believe have become so gargantuan, so disgusting, so pervasive, ...
Guest Column: ?Political Superheroes? By Christopher L. Doster
2009-04-20 03:48:00 GTL? Guest Columnist: Author And Moderately-Right-Of-Center Political Pundit, Christopher L. Doster O-Pines On Bipartisanship And Finding Common Ground Between The Aisles Political Superheroes — By Christopher L. Doster As children, we dreamed of flying and having magical powers. Sometimes... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
On the Projections of Political Activsts (& not just leftists)
2009-04-17 01:03:00 Yesterday, at the Santa Monica “Tea Party,” there was a very unhappy man eager to do battle with Code Pink should they arrive constantly trying to get the crowd to join him in a chant, “Jail Barney Frank.” Despite my criticisms of the unhappy Democrat from Massachusetts, I did not join in. It didn’t think ...
By: GayPatriot
Samajwadi Party?s manifesto was typed on a PDA
2009-04-12 16:43:00 Because they are opposed to the use of computers as, in their opinion, computers reduce employment. They perhaps are confused between use of machinery and computers as use of machinery reduce the dependence on manpower. The Samajwadi Party manifesto for Lok Sabha polls promises closure of English medium schools which charge “high” fee, curbs on high ...
By: Serendipity
The shoe works!
2009-04-10 08:11:00 Thanks to Muntadar al-Zaidi, the citizen of this world have a new way to vent out their anger. Even though it came very late for George Bush, it came at an appropriate time for the Congress. Jarnail Singh’s act of throwing his Reebok shoes and the subsequent protest from the sikh community has forced the ...
By: Serendipity
Couric Rewarded for Political Result of Palin Interview
2009-04-09 03:38:00 Last October, commenting on the media bias against the then-Republican Vice Presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich offered that “to the best of [his] knowledge there has been a single by an elite television journalist about [the Governor's] actual career in Alaska.” The media spent more time investigating her daughter’s indiscretions ...
By: GayPatriot
|
|
 |
|
 |
